Hi, am I the only one experiencing performance variability in games from install to install?
I periodically install other distros to see if the green is grassier on the other side and I decided to do a cleanup, migrate to lvm for my arch install while I’m at it.
I have gone through 5-6 installs in the last 3 weeks, several iterations of arch as well. I always play the same 3-4 games and I know how they should perform already and I am experiencing some weird performance variability, what do I mean by this?
- Some installs have lower fps but stable 1% lows
- Sometimes if feels stuttery, even though the frametimes are stable
- Other times its just perfect
I am not doing anything out of the ordinary, archinstall with my setup, install steam, start my games.
- All AMD system
- single NVME
- Plasma with wayland
I’m stumped, I feel like an idiot looking at this issue because it makes no sense whatsoever. I finally nailed the setup after figuring out how to get LVM running, got everything going and now, it’s a stuttery mess.
Edit: Things eliminated or fixed:
- stutters removed by lowering mouse polling rate to 1000hz
- wayland as a possible overhead by launching my games from the tty with gamescope
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Random uneducated guess: Could it be some cache/shaders stuff? Depending on the game, it could take a while until the cache is warm and everything runs smoothly.
Well, one thing was the high polling rate, I just figured that one out, reduced to 1000hz, so the stutters are gone.
There still a performance delta of about 30% vs windows for some of my games.
Its annoying since I did reach performance parity during one of my previous installs, but I never figured out what it was that I did.